It's not the feature itself that's broken--it's the threads. For some reason, all of those threads have been inexplicably endowed with massive view counts. Why, I have no idea.

they have huge view counts because they're in the most-viewed topics list and people click them to see what they are.

anyway can we now discuss the purpose of that feature? I remember asking about this when it was first made a thing, and now that it's been demonstrably proven to be worthless beyond being a permanent front-page link to that "what do you think my character looks like?" D&D thread, can we get rid of it?

they have huge view counts because they're in the most-viewed topics list and people click them to see what they are.

I'm fairly certain those same threads have been on the most-viewed list since we first moved to this software.

That's not quite true. One of those threads popped up there within the last year. I know because I used to (when terribly bored) visit a thread that was legitimatly most viewed. Then, that thread dissappeared, being replaced by one of the ????? threads. So, at least one of those threads 'gliched out' and obtained a huge post count a good time after the switchover.

Has anyone been keeping track of razor's thread's view counts? A thought just occured to me, what if everytime a RSS feed updates and finds the thread as new, it counts as a view?Likely not right, but worth looking at real quick, maybe.

Has anyone been keeping track of razor's thread's view counts? A thought just occured to me, what if everytime a RSS feed updates and finds the thread as new, it counts as a view?Likely not right, but worth looking at real quick, maybe.

it's been hovering around 80 for a while. my guess is that the RSS bug, combined with being in popular forums, meant that a lot of people saw it, clicked it thinking there was something new, lather, rinse, and repeat.

Razorborne's test thread is continually showing up as new in my RSS feed; PirateAmmo's theory may hold water.

Hey it was my theory first !!

He articulated it fully before you did, and more accurately, too--you included the "What do YOU think MY character looks like?" as an anomaly, but the bug implies that one has probably achieved its placement legitimately.